--- IO-AIO/AIO.pm 2011/06/10 06:50:42 1.196 +++ IO-AIO/AIO.pm 2017/09/22 05:20:39 1.275 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -IO::AIO - Asynchronous Input/Output +IO::AIO - Asynchronous/Advanced Input/Output =head1 SYNOPSIS @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ aio_write, so the remaining functionality would have to be implemented using threads anyway. +In addition to asynchronous I/O, this module also exports some rather +arcane interfaces, such as C or linux's C system call, +which is why the C in C can also mean I. + Although the module will work in the presence of other (Perl-) threads, it is currently not reentrant in any way, so use appropriate locking yourself, always call C from within the same thread, or never @@ -70,7 +74,6 @@ This is a simple example that uses the EV module and loads F asynchronously: - use Fcntl; use EV; use IO::AIO; @@ -97,7 +100,7 @@ print $contents; # exit event loop and program - EV::unloop; + EV::break; }; }; @@ -105,7 +108,7 @@ # check for sockets etc. etc. # process events as long as there are some: - EV::loop; + EV::run; =head1 REQUEST ANATOMY AND LIFETIME @@ -170,17 +173,19 @@ use base 'Exporter'; BEGIN { - our $VERSION = '3.9'; + our $VERSION = 4.35; - our @AIO_REQ = qw(aio_sendfile aio_read aio_write aio_open aio_close + our @AIO_REQ = qw(aio_sendfile aio_seek aio_read aio_write aio_open aio_close aio_stat aio_lstat aio_unlink aio_rmdir aio_readdir aio_readdirx - aio_scandir aio_symlink aio_readlink aio_sync aio_fsync - aio_fdatasync aio_sync_file_range aio_pathsync aio_readahead - aio_rename aio_link aio_move aio_copy aio_group + aio_scandir aio_symlink aio_readlink aio_realpath aio_fcntl aio_ioctl + aio_sync aio_fsync aio_syncfs aio_fdatasync aio_sync_file_range + aio_pathsync aio_readahead aio_fiemap aio_allocate + aio_rename aio_rename2 aio_link aio_move aio_copy aio_group aio_nop aio_mknod aio_load aio_rmtree aio_mkdir aio_chown aio_chmod aio_utime aio_truncate aio_msync aio_mtouch aio_mlock aio_mlockall - aio_statvfs); + aio_statvfs + aio_wd); our @EXPORT = (@AIO_REQ, qw(aioreq_pri aioreq_nice)); our @EXPORT_OK = qw(poll_fileno poll_cb poll_wait flush @@ -202,12 +207,14 @@ =head2 QUICK OVERVIEW -This section simply lists the prototypes of the most important functions -for quick reference. See the following sections for function-by-function +This section simply lists the prototypes most of the functions for +quick reference. See the following sections for function-by-function documentation. + aio_wd $pathname, $callback->($wd) aio_open $pathname, $flags, $mode, $callback->($fh) aio_close $fh, $callback->($status) + aio_seek $fh,$offset,$whence, $callback->($offs) aio_read $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) aio_write $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) aio_sendfile $out_fh, $in_fh, $in_offset, $length, $callback->($retval) @@ -217,31 +224,38 @@ aio_statvfs $fh_or_path, $callback->($statvfs) aio_utime $fh_or_path, $atime, $mtime, $callback->($status) aio_chown $fh_or_path, $uid, $gid, $callback->($status) - aio_truncate $fh_or_path, $offset, $callback->($status) aio_chmod $fh_or_path, $mode, $callback->($status) + aio_truncate $fh_or_path, $offset, $callback->($status) + aio_allocate $fh, $mode, $offset, $len, $callback->($status) + aio_fiemap $fh, $start, $length, $flags, $count, $cb->(\@extents) aio_unlink $pathname, $callback->($status) - aio_mknod $path, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) + aio_mknod $pathname, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) aio_link $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) aio_symlink $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) - aio_readlink $path, $callback->($link) + aio_readlink $pathname, $callback->($link) + aio_realpath $pathname, $callback->($path) aio_rename $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) + aio_rename2 $srcpath, $dstpath, $flags, $callback->($status) aio_mkdir $pathname, $mode, $callback->($status) aio_rmdir $pathname, $callback->($status) aio_readdir $pathname, $callback->($entries) aio_readdirx $pathname, $flags, $callback->($entries, $flags) IO::AIO::READDIR_DENTS IO::AIO::READDIR_DIRS_FIRST IO::AIO::READDIR_STAT_ORDER IO::AIO::READDIR_FOUND_UNKNOWN - aio_load $path, $data, $callback->($status) + aio_scandir $pathname, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) + aio_load $pathname, $data, $callback->($status) aio_copy $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) aio_move $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) - aio_scandir $path, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) - aio_rmtree $path, $callback->($status) + aio_rmtree $pathname, $callback->($status) + aio_fcntl $fh, $cmd, $arg, $callback->($status) + aio_ioctl $fh, $request, $buf, $callback->($status) aio_sync $callback->($status) + aio_syncfs $fh, $callback->($status) aio_fsync $fh, $callback->($status) aio_fdatasync $fh, $callback->($status) aio_sync_file_range $fh, $offset, $nbytes, $flags, $callback->($status) - aio_pathsync $path, $callback->($status) - aio_msync $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = 0, $callback->($status) + aio_pathsync $pathname, $callback->($status) + aio_msync $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = MS_SYNC, $callback->($status) aio_mtouch $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = 0, $callback->($status) aio_mlock $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, $callback->($status) aio_mlockall $flags, $callback->($status) @@ -265,23 +279,31 @@ IO::AIO::nreqs IO::AIO::nready IO::AIO::npending + IO::AIO::min_fdlimit $nfd; IO::AIO::sendfile $ofh, $ifh, $offset, $count IO::AIO::fadvise $fh, $offset, $len, $advice + IO::AIO::mmap $scalar, $length, $prot, $flags[, $fh[, $offset]] + IO::AIO::munmap $scalar IO::AIO::madvise $scalar, $offset, $length, $advice IO::AIO::mprotect $scalar, $offset, $length, $protect IO::AIO::munlock $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef IO::AIO::munlockall -=head2 AIO REQUEST FUNCTIONS +=head2 API NOTES All the C calls are more or less thin wrappers around the syscall with the same name (sans C). The arguments are similar or identical, and they all accept an additional (and optional) C<$callback> argument -which must be a code reference. This code reference will get called with -the syscall return code (e.g. most syscalls return C<-1> on error, unlike -perl, which usually delivers "false") as its sole argument after the given -syscall has been executed asynchronously. +which must be a code reference. This code reference will be called after +the syscall has been executed in an asynchronous fashion. The results +of the request will be passed as arguments to the callback (and, if an +error occured, in C<$!>) - for most requests the syscall return code (e.g. +most syscalls return C<-1> on error, unlike perl, which usually delivers +"false"). + +Some requests (such as C) pass the actual results and +communicate failures by passing C. All functions expecting a filehandle keep a copy of the filehandle internally until the request has finished. @@ -289,23 +311,28 @@ All functions return request objects of type L that allow further manipulation of those requests while they are in-flight. -The pathnames you pass to these routines I be absolute and -encoded as octets. The reason for the former is that at the time the -request is being executed, the current working directory could have -changed. Alternatively, you can make sure that you never change the -current working directory anywhere in the program and then use relative -paths. +The pathnames you pass to these routines I be absolute. The +reason for this is that at the time the request is being executed, the +current working directory could have changed. Alternatively, you can +make sure that you never change the current working directory anywhere +in the program and then use relative paths. You can also take advantage +of IO::AIOs working directory abstraction, that lets you specify paths +relative to some previously-opened "working directory object" - see the +description of the C class later in this document. To encode pathnames as octets, either make sure you either: a) always pass in filenames you got from outside (command line, readdir etc.) without -tinkering, b) are ASCII or ISO 8859-1, c) use the Encode module and encode -your pathnames to the locale (or other) encoding in effect in the user -environment, d) use Glib::filename_from_unicode on unicode filenames or e) -use something else to ensure your scalar has the correct contents. +tinkering, b) are in your native filesystem encoding, c) use the Encode +module and encode your pathnames to the locale (or other) encoding in +effect in the user environment, d) use Glib::filename_from_unicode on +unicode filenames or e) use something else to ensure your scalar has the +correct contents. This works, btw. independent of the internal UTF-8 bit, which IO::AIO handles correctly whether it is set or not. +=head2 AIO REQUEST FUNCTIONS + =over 4 =item $prev_pri = aioreq_pri [$pri] @@ -344,7 +371,7 @@ =item aio_open $pathname, $flags, $mode, $callback->($fh) Asynchronously open or create a file and call the callback with a newly -created filehandle for the file. +created filehandle for the file (or C in case of an error). The pathname passed to C must be absolute. See API NOTES, above, for an explanation. @@ -377,7 +404,7 @@ C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C and C. +C, C, C, C, and C. =item aio_close $fh, $callback->($status) @@ -397,13 +424,33 @@ =cut +=item aio_seek $fh, $offset, $whence, $callback->($offs) + +Seeks the filehandle to the new C<$offset>, similarly to perl's +C. The C<$whence> can use the traditional values (C<0> for +C, C<1> for C or C<2> for +C). + +The resulting absolute offset will be passed to the callback, or C<-1> in +case of an error. + +In theory, the C<$whence> constants could be different than the +corresponding values from L, but perl guarantees they are the same, +so don't panic. + +As a GNU/Linux (and maybe Solaris) extension, also the constants +C and C are available, if they +could be found. No guarantees about suitability for use in C or +Perl's C can be made though, although I would naively assume they +"just work". + =item aio_read $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) =item aio_write $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval) Reads or writes C<$length> bytes from or to the specified C<$fh> and -C<$offset> into the scalar given by C<$data> and offset C<$dataoffset> -and calls the callback without the actual number of bytes read (or -1 on +C<$offset> into the scalar given by C<$data> and offset C<$dataoffset> and +calls the callback with the actual number of bytes transferred (or -1 on error, just like the syscall). C will, like C, shrink or grow the C<$data> scalar to @@ -471,7 +518,7 @@ on many systems, this implementation tries to work around some known bugs in Linux and FreeBSD kernels (probably others, too), but that might fail, so you really really should check the return value of C - -fewre bytes than expected might have been transferred. +fewer bytes than expected might have been transferred. =item aio_readahead $fh,$offset,$length, $callback->($retval) @@ -485,8 +532,8 @@ (off-set+length). C does not read beyond the end of the file. The current file offset of the file is left unchanged. -If that syscall doesn't exist (likely if your OS isn't Linux) it will be -emulated by simply reading the data, which would have a similar effect. +If that syscall doesn't exist (likely if your kernel isn't Linux) it will +be emulated by simply reading the data, which would have a similar effect. =item aio_stat $fh_or_path, $callback->($status) @@ -565,6 +612,90 @@ fsid => 1810 } +Here is a (likely partial - send me updates!) list of fsid values used by +Linux - it is safe to hardcode these when C<$^O> is C: + + 0x0000adf5 adfs + 0x0000adff affs + 0x5346414f afs + 0x09041934 anon-inode filesystem + 0x00000187 autofs + 0x42465331 befs + 0x1badface bfs + 0x42494e4d binfmt_misc + 0x9123683e btrfs + 0x0027e0eb cgroupfs + 0xff534d42 cifs + 0x73757245 coda + 0x012ff7b7 coh + 0x28cd3d45 cramfs + 0x453dcd28 cramfs-wend (wrong endianness) + 0x64626720 debugfs + 0x00001373 devfs + 0x00001cd1 devpts + 0x0000f15f ecryptfs + 0x00414a53 efs + 0x0000137d ext + 0x0000ef53 ext2/ext3/ext4 + 0x0000ef51 ext2 + 0xf2f52010 f2fs + 0x00004006 fat + 0x65735546 fuseblk + 0x65735543 fusectl + 0x0bad1dea futexfs + 0x01161970 gfs2 + 0x47504653 gpfs + 0x00004244 hfs + 0xf995e849 hpfs + 0x00c0ffee hostfs + 0x958458f6 hugetlbfs + 0x2bad1dea inotifyfs + 0x00009660 isofs + 0x000072b6 jffs2 + 0x3153464a jfs + 0x6b414653 k-afs + 0x0bd00bd0 lustre + 0x0000137f minix + 0x0000138f minix 30 char names + 0x00002468 minix v2 + 0x00002478 minix v2 30 char names + 0x00004d5a minix v3 + 0x19800202 mqueue + 0x00004d44 msdos + 0x0000564c novell + 0x00006969 nfs + 0x6e667364 nfsd + 0x00003434 nilfs + 0x5346544e ntfs + 0x00009fa1 openprom + 0x7461636F ocfs2 + 0x00009fa0 proc + 0x6165676c pstorefs + 0x0000002f qnx4 + 0x68191122 qnx6 + 0x858458f6 ramfs + 0x52654973 reiserfs + 0x00007275 romfs + 0x67596969 rpc_pipefs + 0x73636673 securityfs + 0xf97cff8c selinux + 0x0000517b smb + 0x534f434b sockfs + 0x73717368 squashfs + 0x62656572 sysfs + 0x012ff7b6 sysv2 + 0x012ff7b5 sysv4 + 0x01021994 tmpfs + 0x15013346 udf + 0x00011954 ufs + 0x54190100 ufs byteswapped + 0x00009fa2 usbdevfs + 0x01021997 v9fs + 0xa501fcf5 vxfs + 0xabba1974 xenfs + 0x012ff7b4 xenix + 0x58465342 xfs + 0x012fd16d xia =item aio_utime $fh_or_path, $atime, $mtime, $callback->($status) @@ -602,6 +733,28 @@ Works like truncate(2) or ftruncate(2). +=item aio_allocate $fh, $mode, $offset, $len, $callback->($status) + +Allocates or frees disk space according to the C<$mode> argument. See the +linux C documentation for details. + +C<$mode> is usually C<0> or C to allocate +space, or C, +to deallocate a file range. + +IO::AIO also supports C, to remove a range +(without leaving a hole), C, to zero a range, +C to insert a range and C +to unshare shared blocks (see your L manpage). + +The file system block size used by C is presumably the +C returned by C, but different filesystems and filetypes +can dictate other limitations. + +If C isn't available or cannot be emulated (currently no +emulation will be attempted), passes C<-1> and sets C<$!> to C. + + =item aio_chmod $fh_or_path, $mode, $callback->($status) Works like perl's C function. @@ -613,7 +766,7 @@ result code. -=item aio_mknod $path, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) +=item aio_mknod $pathname, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status) [EXPERIMENTAL] @@ -621,7 +774,7 @@ The only (POSIX-) portable way of calling this function is: - aio_mknod $path, IO::AIO::S_IFIFO | $mode, 0, sub { ... + aio_mknod $pathname, IO::AIO::S_IFIFO | $mode, 0, sub { ... See C for info about some potentially helpful extra constants and functions. @@ -638,18 +791,48 @@ the path C<$dstpath> and call the callback with the result code. -=item aio_readlink $path, $callback->($link) +=item aio_readlink $pathname, $callback->($link) Asynchronously read the symlink specified by C<$path> and pass it to the callback. If an error occurs, nothing or undef gets passed to the callback. +=item aio_realpath $pathname, $callback->($path) + +Asynchronously make the path absolute and resolve any symlinks in +C<$path>. The resulting path only consists of directories (same as +L). + +This request can be used to get the absolute path of the current working +directory by passing it a path of F<.> (a single dot). + + =item aio_rename $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status) Asynchronously rename the object at C<$srcpath> to C<$dstpath>, just as rename(2) and call the callback with the result code. +On systems that support the AIO::WD working directory abstraction +natively, the case C<[$wd, "."]> as C<$srcpath> is specialcased - instead +of failing, C is called on the absolute path of C<$wd>. + + +=item aio_rename2 $srcpath, $dstpath, $flags, $callback->($status) + +Basically a version of C with an additional C<$flags> +argument. Calling this with C<$flags=0> is the same as calling +C. + +Non-zero flags are currently only supported on GNU/Linux systems that +support renameat2. Other systems fail with C in this case. + +The following constants are available (missing ones are, as usual C<0>), +see renameat2(2) for details: + +C, C +and C. + =item aio_mkdir $pathname, $mode, $callback->($status) @@ -663,6 +846,10 @@ Asynchronously rmdir (delete) a directory and call the callback with the result code. +On systems that support the AIO::WD working directory abstraction +natively, the case C<[$wd, "."]> is specialcased - instead of failing, +C is called on the absolute path of C<$wd>. + =item aio_readdir $pathname, $callback->($entries) @@ -676,8 +863,8 @@ =item aio_readdirx $pathname, $flags, $callback->($entries, $flags) -Quite similar to C, but the C<$flags> argument allows to tune -behaviour and output format. In case of an error, C<$entries> will be +Quite similar to C, but the C<$flags> argument allows one to +tune behaviour and output format. In case of an error, C<$entries> will be C. The flags are a combination of the following constants, ORed together (the @@ -734,13 +921,13 @@ This flag should not be set when calling C. Instead, it is being set by C, when any of the C<$type>'s found were -C. The absense of this flag therefore indicates that all +C. The absence of this flag therefore indicates that all C<$type>'s are known, which can be used to speed up some algorithms. =back -=item aio_load $path, $data, $callback->($status) +=item aio_load $pathname, $data, $callback->($status) This is a composite request that tries to fully load the given file into memory. Status is the same as with aio_read. @@ -774,6 +961,8 @@ destination) from C<$srcpath> to C<$dstpath> and call the callback with a status of C<0> (ok) or C<-1> (error, see C<$!>). +Existing destination files will be truncated. + This is a composite request that creates the destination file with mode 0200 and copies the contents of the source file into it using C, followed by restoring atime, mtime, access mode and @@ -885,7 +1074,7 @@ $grp } -=item aio_scandir $path, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) +=item aio_scandir $pathname, $maxreq, $callback->($dirs, $nondirs) Scans a directory (similar to C) but additionally tries to efficiently separate the entries of directory C<$path> into two sets of @@ -926,7 +1115,7 @@ entry plus an appended C will be C'ed, likely directories first, in order of their inode numbers. If that succeeds, it assumes that the entry is a directory or a symlink to directory (which will be checked -seperately). This is often faster than stat'ing the entry itself because +separately). This is often faster than stat'ing the entry itself because filesystems might detect the type of the entry without reading the inode data (e.g. ext2fs filetype feature), even on systems that cannot return the filetype information on readdir. @@ -952,67 +1141,78 @@ $maxreq = 4 if $maxreq <= 0; - # stat once + # get a wd object aioreq_pri $pri; - add $grp aio_stat $path, sub { - return $grp->result () if $_[0]; - my $now = time; - my $hash1 = join ":", (stat _)[0,1,3,7,9]; + add $grp aio_wd $path, sub { + $_[0] + or return $grp->result (); + + my $wd = [shift, "."]; - # read the directory entries + # stat once aioreq_pri $pri; - add $grp aio_readdirx $path, READDIR_DIRS_FIRST, sub { - my $entries = shift - or return $grp->result (); + add $grp aio_stat $wd, sub { + return $grp->result () if $_[0]; + my $now = time; + my $hash1 = join ":", (stat _)[0,1,3,7,9]; - # stat the dir another time + # read the directory entries aioreq_pri $pri; - add $grp aio_stat $path, sub { - my $hash2 = join ":", (stat _)[0,1,3,7,9]; + add $grp aio_readdirx $wd, READDIR_DIRS_FIRST, sub { + my $entries = shift + or return $grp->result (); - my $ndirs; + # stat the dir another time + aioreq_pri $pri; + add $grp aio_stat $wd, sub { + my $hash2 = join ":", (stat _)[0,1,3,7,9]; - # take the slow route if anything looks fishy - if ($hash1 ne $hash2 or (stat _)[9] == $now) { - $ndirs = -1; - } else { - # if nlink == 2, we are finished - # for non-posix-fs's, we rely on nlink < 2 - $ndirs = (stat _)[3] - 2 - or return $grp->result ([], $entries); - } + my $ndirs; - my (@dirs, @nondirs); + # take the slow route if anything looks fishy + if ($hash1 ne $hash2 or (stat _)[9] == $now) { + $ndirs = -1; + } else { + # if nlink == 2, we are finished + # for non-posix-fs's, we rely on nlink < 2 + $ndirs = (stat _)[3] - 2 + or return $grp->result ([], $entries); + } - my $statgrp = add $grp aio_group sub { - $grp->result (\@dirs, \@nondirs); - }; + my (@dirs, @nondirs); - limit $statgrp $maxreq; - feed $statgrp sub { - return unless @$entries; - my $entry = shift @$entries; + my $statgrp = add $grp aio_group sub { + $grp->result (\@dirs, \@nondirs); + }; - aioreq_pri $pri; - add $statgrp aio_stat "$path/$entry/.", sub { - if ($_[0] < 0) { - push @nondirs, $entry; - } else { - # need to check for real directory - aioreq_pri $pri; - add $statgrp aio_lstat "$path/$entry", sub { - if (-d _) { - push @dirs, $entry; - - unless (--$ndirs) { - push @nondirs, @$entries; - feed $statgrp; + limit $statgrp $maxreq; + feed $statgrp sub { + return unless @$entries; + my $entry = shift @$entries; + + aioreq_pri $pri; + $wd->[1] = "$entry/."; + add $statgrp aio_stat $wd, sub { + if ($_[0] < 0) { + push @nondirs, $entry; + } else { + # need to check for real directory + aioreq_pri $pri; + $wd->[1] = $entry; + add $statgrp aio_lstat $wd, sub { + if (-d _) { + push @dirs, $entry; + + unless (--$ndirs) { + push @nondirs, @$entries; + feed $statgrp; + } + } else { + push @nondirs, $entry; } - } else { - push @nondirs, $entry; } } - } + }; }; }; }; @@ -1022,10 +1222,10 @@ $grp } -=item aio_rmtree $path, $callback->($status) +=item aio_rmtree $pathname, $callback->($status) Delete a directory tree starting (and including) C<$path>, return the -status of the final C only. This is a composite request that +status of the final C only. This is a composite request that uses C to recurse into and rmdir directories, and unlink everything else. @@ -1057,6 +1257,50 @@ $grp } +=item aio_fcntl $fh, $cmd, $arg, $callback->($status) + +=item aio_ioctl $fh, $request, $buf, $callback->($status) + +These work just like the C and C built-in functions, except +they execute asynchronously and pass the return value to the callback. + +Both calls can be used for a lot of things, some of which make more sense +to run asynchronously in their own thread, while some others make less +sense. For example, calls that block waiting for external events, such +as locking, will also lock down an I/O thread while it is waiting, which +can deadlock the whole I/O system. At the same time, there might be no +alternative to using a thread to wait. + +So in general, you should only use these calls for things that do +(filesystem) I/O, not for things that wait for other events (network, +other processes), although if you are careful and know what you are doing, +you still can. + +The following constants are available (missing ones are, as usual C<0>): + +C, + +C, C, C, + +C, C, C, C, C, C. + +C, C, C, C, +C. + +C, C, C, +C, C, C. + +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C. + +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, + =item aio_sync $callback->($status) Asynchronously call sync and call the callback when finished. @@ -1074,6 +1318,13 @@ If this call isn't available because your OS lacks it or it couldn't be detected, it will be emulated by calling C instead. +=item aio_syncfs $fh, $callback->($status) + +Asynchronously call the syncfs syscall to sync the filesystem associated +to the given filehandle and call the callback with the syncfs result +code. If syncfs is not available, calls sync(), but returns C<-1> and sets +errno to C nevertheless. + =item aio_sync_file_range $fh, $offset, $nbytes, $flags, $callback->($status) Sync the data portion of the file specified by C<$offset> and C<$length> @@ -1086,7 +1337,7 @@ C: refer to the sync_file_range manpage for details. -=item aio_pathsync $path, $callback->($status) +=item aio_pathsync $pathname, $callback->($status) This request tries to open, fsync and close the given path. This is a composite request intended to sync directories after directory operations @@ -1127,7 +1378,7 @@ $grp } -=item aio_msync $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = 0, $callback->($status) +=item aio_msync $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = MS_SYNC, $callback->($status) This is a rather advanced IO::AIO call, which only works on mmap(2)ed scalars (see the C function, although it also works on data @@ -1139,8 +1390,8 @@ area starting at C<$offset> in the string and ending C<$length> bytes later. If C<$length> is negative, counts from the end, and if C<$length> is C, then it goes till the end of the string. The flags can be -a combination of C, C and -C. +either C or C, plus an optional +C. =item aio_mtouch $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, flags = 0, $callback->($status) @@ -1148,10 +1399,10 @@ scalars. It touches (reads or writes) all memory pages in the specified -range inside the scalar. All caveats and parameters are the same +range inside the scalar. All caveats and parameters are the same as for C, above, except for flags, which must be either C<0> (which reads all pages and ensures they are instantiated) or -C, which modifies the memory page s(by reading and +C, which modifies the memory pages (by reading and writing an octet from it, which dirties the page). =item aio_mlock $scalar, $offset = 0, $length = undef, $callback->($status) @@ -1193,6 +1444,51 @@ aio_mlockall IO::AIO::MCL_FUTURE; +=item aio_fiemap $fh, $start, $length, $flags, $count, $cb->(\@extents) + +Queries the extents of the given file (by calling the Linux C +ioctl, see L for details). If +the ioctl is not available on your OS, then this request will fail with +C. + +C<$start> is the starting offset to query extents for, C<$length> is the +size of the range to query - if it is C, then the whole file will +be queried. + +C<$flags> is a combination of flags (C or +C - C is also +exported), and is normally C<0> or C to query +the data portion. + +C<$count> is the maximum number of extent records to return. If it is +C, then IO::AIO queries all extents of the range. As a very special +case, if it is C<0>, then the callback receives the number of extents +instead of the extents themselves (which is unreliable, see below). + +If an error occurs, the callback receives no arguments. The special +C value C is available to test for flag errors. + +Otherwise, the callback receives an array reference with extent +structures. Each extent structure is an array reference itself, with the +following members: + + [$logical, $physical, $length, $flags] + +Flags is any combination of the following flag values (typically either C<0> +or C (1)): + +C, C, +C, C, +C, C, +C, C, +C, C or +C. + +At the time of this writing (Linux 3.2), this requets is unreliable unless +C<$count> is C, as the kernel has all sorts of bugs preventing +it to return all extents of a range for files with large number of +extents. The code works around all these issues if C<$count> is undef. + =item aio_group $callback->(...) This is a very special aio request: Instead of doing something, it is a @@ -1239,6 +1535,131 @@ =back + +=head2 IO::AIO::WD - multiple working directories + +Your process only has one current working directory, which is used by all +threads. This makes it hard to use relative paths (some other component +could call C at any time, and it is hard to control when the path +will be used by IO::AIO). + +One solution for this is to always use absolute paths. This usually works, +but can be quite slow (the kernel has to walk the whole path on every +access), and can also be a hassle to implement. + +Newer POSIX systems have a number of functions (openat, fdopendir, +futimensat and so on) that make it possible to specify working directories +per operation. + +For portability, and because the clowns who "designed", or shall I write, +perpetrated this new interface were obviously half-drunk, this abstraction +cannot be perfect, though. + +IO::AIO allows you to convert directory paths into a so-called IO::AIO::WD +object. This object stores the canonicalised, absolute version of the +path, and on systems that allow it, also a directory file descriptor. + +Everywhere where a pathname is accepted by IO::AIO (e.g. in C +or C), one can specify an array reference with an IO::AIO::WD +object and a pathname instead (or the IO::AIO::WD object alone, which +gets interpreted as C<[$wd, "."]>). If the pathname is absolute, the +IO::AIO::WD object is ignored, otherwise the pathname is resolved relative +to that IO::AIO::WD object. + +For example, to get a wd object for F and then stat F +inside, you would write: + + aio_wd "/etc", sub { + my $etcdir = shift; + + # although $etcdir can be undef on error, there is generally no reason + # to check for errors here, as aio_stat will fail with ENOENT + # when $etcdir is undef. + + aio_stat [$etcdir, "passwd"], sub { + # yay + }; + }; + +The fact that C is a request and not a normal function shows that +creating an IO::AIO::WD object is itself a potentially blocking operation, +which is why it is done asynchronously. + +To stat the directory obtained with C above, one could write +either of the following three request calls: + + aio_lstat "/etc" , sub { ... # pathname as normal string + aio_lstat [$wd, "."], sub { ... # "." relative to $wd (i.e. $wd itself) + aio_lstat $wd , sub { ... # shorthand for the previous + +As with normal pathnames, IO::AIO keeps a copy of the working directory +object and the pathname string, so you could write the following without +causing any issues due to C<$path> getting reused: + + my $path = [$wd, undef]; + + for my $name (qw(abc def ghi)) { + $path->[1] = $name; + aio_stat $path, sub { + # ... + }; + } + +There are some caveats: when directories get renamed (or deleted), the +pathname string doesn't change, so will point to the new directory (or +nowhere at all), while the directory fd, if available on the system, +will still point to the original directory. Most functions accepting a +pathname will use the directory fd on newer systems, and the string on +older systems. Some functions (such as realpath) will always rely on the +string form of the pathname. + +So this functionality is mainly useful to get some protection against +C, to easily get an absolute path out of a relative path for future +reference, and to speed up doing many operations in the same directory +(e.g. when stat'ing all files in a directory). + +The following functions implement this working directory abstraction: + +=over 4 + +=item aio_wd $pathname, $callback->($wd) + +Asynchonously canonicalise the given pathname and convert it to an +IO::AIO::WD object representing it. If possible and supported on the +system, also open a directory fd to speed up pathname resolution relative +to this working directory. + +If something goes wrong, then C is passwd to the callback instead +of a working directory object and C<$!> is set appropriately. Since +passing C as working directory component of a pathname fails the +request with C, there is often no need for error checking in the +C callback, as future requests using the value will fail in the +expected way. + +=item IO::AIO::CWD + +This is a compiletime constant (object) that represents the process +current working directory. + +Specifying this object as working directory object for a pathname is as if +the pathname would be specified directly, without a directory object. For +example, these calls are functionally identical: + + aio_stat "somefile", sub { ... }; + aio_stat [IO::AIO::CWD, "somefile"], sub { ... }; + +=back + +To recover the path associated with an IO::AIO::WD object, you can use +C: + + aio_realpath $wd, sub { + warn "path is $_[0]\n"; + }; + +Currently, C always, and C and C +sometimes, fall back to using an absolue path. + =head2 IO::AIO::REQ CLASS All non-aggregate C functions return an object of this class when @@ -1365,8 +1786,8 @@ generator that generates requests if idle. The idea behind this is that, although you could just queue as many requests as you want in a group, this might starve other requests for a potentially long time. For example, -C might generate hundreds of thousands C requests, -delaying any later requests for a long time. +C might generate hundreds of thousands of C +requests, delaying any later requests for a long time. To avoid this, and allow incremental generation of requests, you can instead a group and set a feeder on it that generates those requests. The @@ -1425,16 +1846,19 @@ =item IO::AIO::poll_cb -Process some outstanding events on the result pipe. You have to call -this regularly. Returns C<0> if all events could be processed (or there -were no events to process), or C<-1> if it returned earlier for whatever -reason. Returns immediately when no events are outstanding. The amount of -events processed depends on the settings of C and -C. - -If not all requests were processed for whatever reason, the filehandle -will still be ready when C returns, so normally you don't have to -do anything special to have it called later. +Process some requests that have reached the result phase (i.e. they have +been executed but the results are not yet reported). You have to call +this "regularly" to finish outstanding requests. + +Returns C<0> if all events could be processed (or there were no +events to process), or C<-1> if it returned earlier for whatever +reason. Returns immediately when no events are outstanding. The amount +of events processed depends on the settings of C, +C and C. + +If not all requests were processed for whatever reason, the poll file +descriptor will still be ready when C returns, so normally you +don't have to do anything special to have it called later. Apart from calling C when the event filehandle becomes ready, it can be beneficial to call this function from loops which submit @@ -1453,10 +1877,11 @@ =item IO::AIO::poll_wait -If there are any outstanding requests and none of them in the result -phase, wait till the result filehandle becomes ready for reading (simply -does a C